Camera attachment.



PATENTED FEB. 27,1906.

M. I. LORYEA. CAMERA ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION rum) AUG.30,1905.

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MILTON ISAAC LORYEA, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

CAMERA ATTACHMENT- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed Angnlt 80, 1805. Burial Ho. 276,440.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON lsAAo Learns,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident.

of Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Camera Attachment, of which thelollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to rovido a plates are e'ifiposed before the object to be photographe The invention involves various features of major or minor importance, all of which will be fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompan ing drawings, which illustrate, as an oxamp w, the preferred embodiment of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the camera, showmg my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the shutter-tape. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views showing the numbering tape. Fig. 7 is a fra mentary view showing the tape superimpose and illustrating the manner in which numbers are formed. Fig. 8 is a detail view showin the tension device for the tape-rolls, and Big. 9 is a view showing the plate after exposure.

in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 10 indicates a slideway for the reception of the plate-holder. In Fig. 3 the plate-holder 11 is illustrated in posit1on, 11" indicating the two plates separated by a partition 11* and ada ted to be covered by ops: ue sheets, one of w ieh is indieated at 11 in t 1e figure. Mounted at the backs! the camera directly in front of the said slideway 10 is a flattened tube 12, which is b'owed and slightl resilient, so that as the piste-holder 11 is s id into osition the bowed portion of the tube 12 will be engaged, and said portion will press itself firmly a ainst the plate allowing the number or ot or identifyln r character as will be hereinafter explains to be clearly impressed upon the plate. Said flat toned tube 12 is provided at or approximately at its middle with an opening 12, and this is spanned by a bridge-rod 14, which serves to strengthen the tube at this point. The tube 12 extends be and each side of the opening at the back 0 the camera, and at one of its extended ends, preferably the right-hand end, (shown best in Fig. 1,) said tube is provided with a second opening 12". The openings 12 and 12. are arranged out of line with each other, the former opening being at the upper edge of the tube and the lattor being at the lower edge. Arranged to slide freely in the tube 12 are three ta es, (designated 15, 16, and 17, respective y.) These tapes are formed of celluloid or other transparent material. The tape 15 may be termed the shutter-tape, since it is intend ed to blank the openings 12 and 12, preventing the number from being reproduced on the plate and also preventing observation of the tapes 16 and 17 through the openings 12*. To effect this end, the shutter-tape 15 is provided with opaque portions 15", and the tape may be moved so that the opaque )ortion 15. will cover, respectively, the openm s 12. and 12 preventing the number or ot er identifying character from being impressed upon the plate and also preventing the operator from observing any number through the openin 12". The tapes 16 and 17 are rovided wit two sets of numbers, as shown est in Figs. 5 and 6. Of these numbers the 11 per line on each tape is inverted, while the lbwer line on each tape roads correctly. The tapes being superimposed, the upper lines of the tapes read together and are exposed through the opening 12, while the lower lines 'read together and are visible through the opening 12". By relative adjustment of the tapes 9. wide range of compound figures may be made to appear through the openings 12 and 12 ,and by properly adjusting the numbers on the tapes the same numhere may be exposed through each opening, the number appeari through the opening 12 being inverted am the number appearing through the opening 12 reading correctly. The opening12 furnishes, therefore, an index or observation openin enabling the operator c uiek'ly to see just w at number is ex osed t ough the openin ,12. When the ii m or plate is exposed to t a photographic process the number exposed at the openin 12 will be correctly photographed on t is plate.

opening 12". Through the opening 12 the same number is exposed in inverted position.

By a further adjustment of the ta es 16 and 17 a different number may be ma e to a pear through both of these openings. 1g. 9 shows a fragment of the plate after exposure, and it will be seen that the number 3128" is produced on the margin of the plate. Fig. 9 shows the reverse side of the plate, and the number therefore appears reversely. On the opposite or obverse side of the plate the number will read correctly. In Fig. 7 the plates 16 and 17 are shown superimposed, and this view clearly illustrates how the compound numbers are formed by the two transparent tapes.

The tapes 16 and 17 have their ends wound on rollers 18 and 19, these bein mounted in boxes 20, formed at the back 0 the camera, and the rollers being provided with thumb-wheels 21, facilitating the operation of the rollers. Said rollers are also rovided with tension-springs 22, which ho] the rolls against idle movement. The boxes 20 have cover-plates 23, and one of these lates is provided with a slot 23, through w 'ch a in or screw 24 asses, said in or screw 24 sing in connection through t e medium of a cli 25 with one end of the ta e 15 and furnis 'n P a means for shifting this tape at will The ot er cover 23 has an opening 23 therein, which exposes the before-mentioned openin 12 in the flattened tube 12.

n the o eration of the invention the thumb-whee s 21 should be adjusted to show the desired number through'the openin 12", the operator thus knowing what num er is exposed through the opening 12, notwithstanding that the plate may be behind said opening, and prevent the operator from observing the number exposed at this point. After this is done the p ate may be exposed in the usual manner, the result being that the number is roduced on the plate as shown in Fi 9, an as has been previously explained.

ien the next picture 18 to be taken, a further adjustment of the thumb-wheel should be made so as to.show the next consecutive number. In this manner all of the plates exposed in the camera may be successive] numbered and thus thoroughly identified: It is obvious that the invention is not limited to the use of numbers and that other identi-;

fying characters may be employed. It is referable to employ consecutive numbers. Should it be desired not to produce the number on the plate, the thumb-pin 24 should be adjusted so as to move the opaque portion 15 of the tape 15 over the openin 12 and 12, thus covering the number w 'ch is exposed through the openin 12, and since the openin 12 is covered t e operator is informs that the opening 12 is also blank and e1a,sos

that the late which is about to be exposed Will not ave a number produced thereon. By partly shifting the tape 15 the number may be partly covered, and in this way additional combinations of numbers may be made so that by providing the two tapes with two sets of numbers thereon a great number of combinations may be made.

Having thus described the preferred form of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'1. A camera attachment having a plural- Lty of transparent tapes capable of relative ustment, for the purpose specified, the said tapes having characters thereon adapted to be exposed to the photographic plate in the camera.

2. A camera attachment having a plurality of relatively adjustable transparent tapes, each having two sets of characters thereon and a means in which said tapes are guide and inclosed, said means having two openings respectively adapted to expose the sets of characters on the tapes.

3. A camera attachment having a plurality of relatively adjustable transparent tapes, each having two sets of characters thereon a means in which said tapes are guided and inclosed said means having two openings re.- spectively adapted to expose the sets of characters on the tapes, and a shutter device for the said openings.

4. A camera attachment having a plurality of relatively adjustable transparent tapes, each having two sets of characters thereon, a means in which said tapes are guided and inclosed, said means having two openings respectively adapted to expose the sets of characters on the tapes, and a shuttertape movable in said means for inclosin the first-mentioned tapes, the shutter-tapeiiaving opaque portions adapted to close said openings.

5. A camera attachment tened tube extendin across the rear of the camera, in front of t plate said tube having an opening therein, an a transparent tape havin characters thereon, the tape being inclose in the tube, and the opening serving to expose one or more of the characters.

6. A camera attachment having a fiattened tube extending across the rear of the camera in front of the plate and a plurality of transparent tapes movable throu h the tube, said tube having an opening t rein, and the tapes having characters thereon adapted to be exposed through the opening.

7. A camera attachment having a flattened tube extendin across the rear of the camera in front of t e plate, a plurality of transparent tapes movable through the tube, said tube having an opening therein, and the tapes havin characters thereon adapted to be exposed t ou h the opening, and a shutter-tape adjustab e in the tube and having having a flatted to be moved opan ape ue portion ada l1 e tube, for the purposite t e opening in t pose specified.

8. A camera attachment having a tube extending across the rear of the camera in front of the plate position,'said tube havin an opening opposite the plate position an an opening at one end portion, and the openings being out of longitudinal alinement with each other, and relatively adjustable transarent tapes located in the tube and each aving two sets of numbers thereon, which sets of numbers are respectively visible throu h'the openings in the tube.

9. camera attachment com rising a tube extending across the rear of t e camera in front of the late position, and formed with an opening t erein opposite the plate position and a second openin in one end ortion of the tube, and a tape a justable in t e tube and having two sets of numbers thereon, the openings in the tube being out of 1011 imdmal a"nement and serving respective y to expose the sets of numbers on the tape.

10. A camera attachment comprising a tube extending across the rear of the camera in front of the plate position, and formed with an opening therein opposite the plate position and a second opening in one end portion of the tube, a tape ad'ustable in the tube and having two sets of numbers thereon, the openings in the tube being out of longitudinal alinement and serving respectively to expose the sets of numbers on the tape, and a shutter-tape adjustable in the tube and having opaque portions adapted to cover said openings therein.

11. camera attachment having a tube extendin across the rear of the camera in front of t e plate position, said tube having an opening therein opposite the plate position, transparent ta as having numbers thereon adapted to side in the tube, and rolls located at the ends ofthe tube and having said tapes wound thereon.

12. A camera attachment having a tube extentlin across the rear of the earners. in front of t e plate position, said tube having an opening therein opposite the plate posi tion, transparent ta es havin numbers thereon adapted to slide in the tu e, rolls losated at the ends of the tube and having said tapes wound thereon, a box inclosin the re is at one end of the tube, a member sfiding in one wall of the box, and a shutter-ta e adjustable in the tube and connected wit said sliding member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of Witnesses.

LTON ISAAC LORYEA.

two subscribin M Witnesses;

M. B. CONNELLY,

R. L. Wsns'rnn. 

